In the last week or so we’ve seen a lot of visitors on the homestead. Most were welcome, even expected. One other was neither.
Just after Independence Day, we welcomed relatively new friends making their second visit here, along with their son, who has recently moved to Haines. We’d anticipated their visit for a few months, ever since they told us of their plans to return to Haines. We had an excellent evening with them. We even sampled some of the homestead wines.
A second group of visitors came as more of a surprise, although neighbors had informed us of their coming—or, more precisely, one key member of the group. The wife of the couple that had built our homestead dropped in for a visit on the way back from a music festival in Canada, which she attended with some friends from her new hometown, Tenakee Springs. Continue reading